Sentences with phrase «of biblical literalists»

@airwx - There are plenty of biblical literalists who insist that 6 days is 6 days... there was a talking snake (serpent)... Noah... Exodus... the entire ball of wax.

And you make fun of Biblical literalists?

In most of the denominations there is still a considerable number of biblical literalists (self - styled conservatives but called fundamentalists by others) who refuse to accept the views of modern historical and textual scholarship as to the true meanings of the Bible.

I do not know of any Christian in our time, however much of a biblical literalist, who feels obligated to keep this command.

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I strongly encourage you to walk away from the biblical literalist teaching you have gotten ahold of.

It is what I find the most ironic of the most strident biblical literalists: by attempting to fix the bible into one single, unalterable interpretation, instead of an ongoing conversation, they are sowing the seeds for its own obsolescence.

It's because old - time mindless Biblical literalist, young - earth Christainity is so easy and fun to make fun of!

The one thing I worry about is the biblical literalists, who think that the Book of Revelation is an actual prophecy that will be fulfilled.

Like you I find biblical literalists far more dangerous than the feel good theology of Mr. Olstein.

If one is not a biblical literalist there is no case at all, nothing but prejudice born of ignorance, that attacks people whose only crime is to be born with an unchangeable sexual predisposition toward those of their own sex.

I have a very high view of scripture, though I wouldn't consider myself a biblical literalist.

Certainly the Biblical literalists do not intend all of these.

But the Biblical literalist can not do this, and has to insist that the words of Joshua and Elijah, Ecclesiastes and Job, are as true as anything Jesus said, and therefore presumably just as important.

Most Popular Comment: In response to «Esther and Vashti: The Real Story,» Ed wrote, «While biblical literalists can make an interesting case for wifely submission, (provided you first accept their literal perspective) they also need to take into account the story of Ananias and Sapphira - where Sapphira was held accountable separate from her husband.

It is true enough that the pseudo science of young earthers and biblical literalists would seem to support this view.

One of the ironies of biblical literalism is that it shares so largely in the reductionist and literalist spirit of the age.

Not even the strictest biblical literalists deny the bred varieties of dogs, the variation of finch beaks, and similar instances within types.

Disheartened by the amount of support Griffin had received from the community, I considered showing up at the courthouse with a sign that included Exodus 22:21, «Do not mistreat an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in Egypt» — mainly because June prides herself on being a strict biblical literalist.

For the Biblical literalist the text of the Bible is sacred in much the same way.

Mike, if I were a biblical literalist I would have a problem with the Book of Job; but it is a very ancient text and speaks to a people for whom Satan was often suspected of being more powerful than God.

Moreover, the council endorses the methods of modern biblical scholarship which reject literalist and fundamentalist readings of Scripture.

It should be clear, however, that the biblical literalist can find no comfort in these affirmations, for they rest on grounds quite other than those of fundamentalism.

But if the early church could survive — and in fact, thrive amidst persecution — when it included both Jews and Gentiles, zealots and tax collectors, slaves and owners, men and women, those in support of circumcision and those against it, those staunchly opposed to eating food that had been sacrificed to idols and those who felt it necessary, then I think modern American Christianity can survive when it includes democrats and republicans, biblical literalists and biblical non-literalists, Calvinists and Arminians... so long as we're not rooting for one another's demise.

If one is not a biblical literalist there is no case at all, nothing but prejudice born of ignorance, that attacks people whose only crime is to be born with an un-changeable sexual predisposition toward those of their own sex.

For a biblical literalist these passages pose a definite problem to either the relevance of the Bible in modern society or the goodness of God Himself.

This phrase is often misunderstood, especially by biblical literalists, as meaning the words of God, supposedly contained in the Holy Book.

Don't make the mistake of thinking those questions are prompted by some «do your own thing» new - agey attitude — as a born - again spirit - filled biblical literalist I would have asked those questions of you — and been concerned for your spiritual state if you were indeed saying what you seemed to be saying.

if anything, biblical literalists should be extremely concerned with conservation of the earth's resources.

For example, those on the radical right tend to be biblical literalists for whom scripture speaks to both the problems of daily life and the dilemmas of politics.

He feeds the desires of the fundamental biblical literalists and makes a bloody fortune deceiving them and furthering their ignorance.

Previously he separated himself from Biblical literalists by accepting the antiquity of life and the Darwinian principles of common descent, and here he points out that certain shared features in the DNA sequences of chimps and humans show beyond any doubt that we and chimps share a common ancestor.

A problem could arise with biblical literalists, but one could address that by suggesting that some fictional stories have great value in teaching some lesson or illuminating some aspect of the «human (or other sentient being) condition», and also address actual historical events in the translation of the bible — or one could be more abbrassive and ask «do you believe deaf people can't be saved» (see one of Paul's letters, and the history of the Catholic Church)-- oh, you don't — so when you said you were a literalist, you were speaking figuratively?»